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Final Fantasy XIV Races And Tribes Outlined, Detailed

If you were a fan of Final Fantasy XI, you're likely psyched for the upcoming MMORPG, Final Fantasy XIV.

The game's official site has been updated with the game's five available races, and the explanation and details for each. It's all in Japanese but the English summary can be found over at RPGLand, and RPG followers will definitely be interested in the very distinct races. There are the Hyuran, the most numerous tribe; Midlanders who "are literate from a young age, and are brought up with many customs." Their Highlander counterparts are bigger and more muscular, but aren't considered to be as intelligent. The Miqo'te have two tribes; the Seekers of the Sun (active during the day) and the Keepers of the Moon (guess). The Lalafel consist of Plainsfolk who boast flaxen hair and are noted for their good hearing thanks to over-sized ears (sounds a lot like Elves to us). The Dunesfolk "are a nomadic herding people" with "peculiarly glasslike" eyes.

The Elezen tribe has the Foresters - "pale forest-dwelling people" - who have great eyes and the Shaders, who live in dim limestone caves and have a great sense of hearing. The latter is also well-suited to hand-to-hand combat. Lastly, there's the fearsome Roegadyn, which includes the Seewolf tribe (raiders, pirates, and general sailors) and the Roegadyn of Lohengarde, also known as the Soldiers of Fire. They live in a volcanic crater that some believe to be the gates to purgatory; these people are stubborn and have an aptitude for the mystic arts. Sound intriguing enough? Which class will you be?

Idk I see them as more immersive, ie you're in this huge world with a realistic amount of inhabitants due to it being an mmo. Plus, you're always gonna have people to play with, I mean, it is Final Fantasy after all, you can bet it'll have more players than the other RPGs

Nice, yeah I'm really looking forward to it. There's a podcast over on ffxivcore about xiv that I just found the other night. Great site for this game. I have no idea which race I'm going to choose. At first I was going with Hyum (or however it's spelled) the Hume type, but now ...I dunno, those little Lallafel guys are adorable >.>

Not exactly the same, they just wanted to make similar races for people to keep their characters relatively close to what they had in XI. Like ..the Lallafel don't quite look like the Tarutaru, and the Galkan ...well the new ones don't have tails.

yeah, that pissed me off. i wanted to hear the final fantasy 7 victory fanfare after beating a group of enemies. one of the few things i missed. also getting gil as a battle reward too since you dont really get much component droppes even with the catalogs. It may just be because i'm battling adamantoises. got about 20 platinum ingots, 2 trapezahedrons, and 50 of each credit and incentive chips. it may sound a lot but compared to how much battles i played farming, thats nothing.

@WorldEndsWithMeMaybe they could have included it like the did in FFXII. Obviously tough to do for every battle, but perhaps after important boss battles? I love how the fanfares all had the same intro, then the continuing song was always unique. They all had (and I KNOW you guys can hear the song in my mere text!!) "Da da da daaa daaaa daaaa dun duh daaaaaaaaaa!!! (unique part here)"

I'll give FFIV a whirl, I guess. I played XI for a couple years and had fun until the grind got to my frontal lobe and beat it with a hammer.Hoping to get into the beta, but if I don't, I'm still buying it day one.

I'll pick it up day one most likely. Enjoyed FFXI for a few years. May subscribe again just to get used to it again and try the three new mini expansions that are coming out this year. I don't mind paying per month in the least. It keeps the content additions coming. EVE Online is a prime example. The 13th expansion is about to be added in a few months.

hey ben you can actually find all this at the north american website too.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/

click world at the top and then choose races, then overview.

I'm really looking forward to this game and I won't know which race I'll play until I see their stats. I won't play the Hyur tho, hate playing human. I'm human, its fantasy so I want to be what I can't be.

Glad to know they got this new info up, I hope it plays really well on the ps3 as I'd prefer to play it on there until I can get me a gaming computer.

I wish they would let play be free, just sell the game at full price, then sell tons of weapons and upgrades and houses and gil and stuff in the XIV world.Last edited by WorldEndsWithMe on 3/31/2010 1:23:00 PM

Only problem with selling things like gil or anything else that might have an in-game monetary feature, is that it can really screw up the in-game economy and cause things like inflation or deflation (depending on the rarity of items, etc.). Those who remember FFXI in the early days might recall certain items that sell for 1million gil, might now only sell for 20k.

It definitely would be a good idea, though, like World's said, to sell items or upgrades, but you would need to ensure that those items could not be resold in-game or transferred in any way from one player to another.

The infamous gil-sellers and their websites ruin in-game economies, hence their use being banned. Although, in reality, I'm sure Squeenix allows it in limited amounts since it would promote them making more money through gil-seller accounts and increased traffic of players otherwise discouraged by the amount of work it takes to farm gil.

However, what World's says is basically the only way the game could possibly be free to play month to month. With numerous servers, inevitable glitches, and P2P interactions, there needs to be some sort of admin support for MMO's. It's not like MW2 where a random player can host a match. These worlds are massive and need entire servers dedicated to their maintenance. Similarly, there are always times someone, somewhere, will need admin support. How could SE support that without a steady flow of income?

Then there's the updates. These MMO's need pretty much monthly updates to either fix bugs or add additional content or abilities. Alot of the free downloadable MMO's out there make their money by buying items and such and also through advertising. I think the last thing we want with our admin support is a plethora of advertisement courtesy of google-ads, or something.

Point is, maintaining what will need to be 10-20 different servers, supporting hundreds of thousands or millions of users interacting with each other (this carries tonnes of issues like harassment, discrimination, etc. that you cannot avoid like you can in small scale multi-player games like shooters.), and monitoring abnormal activities carries a heavy cost. If it was completely free, these issues would not get resolved quickly, and the experience would go to pot. So with all this in mind, I do not think it will be without it's monthly or yearly access fees.Last edited by Underdog15 on 3/31/2010 2:26:49 PM